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© Tait International Limited November 2019
TaitNet
Brand name for a PMR network designed and manufactured by Tait
International Limited.
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol. A complex protocol on top of IP for
sending reliable streams of data with flow control.
TDMA
Time Division Multiple Access. TDMA divides a single RF channel into
multiple time slots (logical channels), with each time slot being transmitted
in rapid succession, one after the other. A time slot can be occupied by a
single voice or data stream.
TIA
Telecommunications Industry Association
toggle
Describes the switching between two states. If something is on, toggling it
turns it off. If it is off, toggling it turns it on.
tone
A sound wave of a particular frequency.
Tx
Transmitter.
uplink
The transmission path from SUs to fixed equipment.
UTC
Coordinated Universal Time (word order from French). An international
time standard that has replaced Greenwich Mean Time.
voice stream
A digitized voice signal that passes through the main switch.
VoIP
Voice over IP. The name for the technology that puts speech signals in
packets and then routes them over an IP backbone network.
voting
The systematic sampling of a group of channels for the channel with the
best signal quality. Voting provides wide-area coverage and ensures that as
the user moves throughout the coverage area the strongest channel is
always available for a call.
VPN
Virtual Private Network. A private communications network used to
communicate confidentially over a non-private network.
VSWR
Voltage Standing Wave Ratio is the ratio of the maximum peak voltage
anywhere on the transmission line to the minimum value anywhere on the
transmission line. A perfectly matched line has a VSWR of 1:1. A high
ratio indicates that the antenna subsystem is poorly matched.
